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Is sport Donald Trump’s new political football?

Season 1, Ep. 1215

Donald Trump has threatened to move football World Cup games from liberal US cities. Could his friendship with FIFA’s President Gianni Infantino make it happen?


Writer: Poppy Bullard and Jessy Parker Humphreys 


Producer: Poppy Bullard


Host: Tomini Babs


Episode photography: Sofia Fenton


Executive Producer: Matt Russell



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